position navigation and timing (PNT) Archives

SDA lays out plans for third batch of data transport, missile tracking satellites

The Space Development Agency intends to begin publishing draft solicitations for Tranche 3 in early 2025.

Oct 9, 2024 By Mikayla Easley

Space Force looking to scale ‘integrated’ unit structure to other missions

The Integrated Mission Deltas were designed to consolidate operations and sustainment under one unit in order to boost readiness.

Feb 27, 2024 By Mikayla Easley

Special operators conduct training in austere conditions at Pituffik Space Base, Greenland, on May 9, 2023, in support of exercise ARCTIC EDGE 2023. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Andrew Adams)

Arctic strategy implementation plan calls for enhanced military comms, sensing and PNT

The White House's new implementation plan is a follow-up to the administration's 2022 Arctic strategy.

Oct 23, 2023 By Mikayla Easley

U.S. Army Soldiers experiment with new Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing/Space equipment during the Army’s 2021 Positioning, Navigation and Timing Assessment Exercise at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. (U.S. Army photo by Austin Thomas, Army Futures Command)

Army Futures Command considering ‘repurposed’ CFT for space-based, deep sensing

The Army is considering transforming the mission of its Assured Positioning, Navigating and Timing/Space cross-functional team.

Oct 9, 2023 By Mikayla Easley

Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey Englehardt, the noncommissioned officer-in-charge of the operations section for the 142nd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, which is deployed to support 1st Theater Sustainment Command, gauges wind speed near the Camp Buehring, Kuwait, drop zone for the April 22, 2021 air drop of four bundles using the Joint Precision Air Delivery System, JPADS. Englehardt said JPADS uses the Modular Autonomous Guidance Unit, or MAGU, to manipulate the the parafoil’s rigging to steer it using GPS to reach its programmed coordinates. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Neil W. McCabe)

BAE scores $318M Army GPS contract

The award relates to the M-code GPS cards for the Mounted and Dismounted Assured Position, Navigation and Timing systems.

Sep 29, 2023 By Mark Pomerleau

Australian defense establishment teaming with startup Q-CTRL amid AUKUS push for quantum tech

The contract announced Tuesday supports the first part of a multiyear effort to “field-deploy and validate” miniaturized systems on military platforms, according to the company.

Jul 11, 2023 By Jon Harper

Electronics Technician 2nd Class Eric Wang, from Irvine, Calif., conducts maintenance on the global positioning system in the pilot house aboard Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Charleston (LCS 18). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ryan M. Breeden)

Naval Research Lab scouting out industry’s cutting-edge PNT capabilities

According to an RFI, the Navy is looking for technical, engineering and scientific expertise and capabilities that can support the lab’s work related to space-based position, navigation…

Jun 16, 2023 By Mikayla Easley

Pentagon alters oversight of PNT enterprise in new guidance

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks signed off on an update to how the Pentagon oversees its positioning, navigation and timing enterprise.

Apr 26, 2023 By Jon Harper

General Dynamics pitching new tech to bolster the Army’s resilience against GPS jamming and spoofing

General Dynamics Mission Systems is now proposing a family of systems that it says would better protect position, navigation and timing (PNT) capabilities from adversary attacks.

Mar 28, 2023 By Mark Pomerleau

U.S. Marine Corps combat engineers attached to Battalion Landing Team 3/5, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), utilize a GPS during an Instrument Set, Reconnaissance and Surveying (ENFIRE) class aboard the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) in the Philippine Sea, July 6, 2021. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Karis Mattingly)

Pentagon CIO places high priority on developing GPS alternatives with growing threat of great power conflict

The events that have unfolded over the last year in Ukraine have shown the need to accelerate the fielding of new technologies like GPS alternatives and other…

Mar 21, 2023 By Billy Mitchell